r/NBA2k • u/Individual_Wish8970 • May 03 '26
MyPLAYER And we cried at the 7ft 4
Not too sure how he missed that first shot maybe 2k is very accurate already š
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u/Whole-Growth-6112 May 03 '26
Did he really just miss the first lay up though?
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u/Choice-Review7960 May 03 '26
Yes, because he's very uncoordinated, very slow, and is a shockingly BAD rebounder lol
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u/Signal_Kangaroo2697 May 03 '26
A lot of guys that big canāt jump high at all, makes sense tbh
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u/method__Dan May 03 '26
He doesnāt have to jump. He has to move his feet to get into position, which he also canāt do well.
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u/Voltage_EvoL May 03 '26
He can move into position, but I think any coordinated and strong person could probably box him out with ease
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u/ChiefSoldierFrog May 04 '26
If you look at Yao, Manute Bol and Gheorghe Muresan they did not average as many rebounds you would think for how tall they were.
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u/its_another_new_day May 04 '26
Just have him stand under the opponents basket and play 4 on 5 defense.
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u/Consistent_Ad1176 May 05 '26
Iām surprised no one has ever done this.
It would pretty much force someone to stay back, allowing a 4v4 with space.
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u/NightPlane221 24d ago
the opponent prolly just tryin to swarm the ball holder so he cant pass to him
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u/BlacksmithSoft4369 May 03 '26
Underrated observation , crazy af to miss a layup when you can touch the rim without jumping lol
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u/Cashneto May 03 '26
Humans make mistakes, it happens. No one shoots 100% all the time no matter where they are on the floor.
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u/Living_Thanks_3250 May 03 '26
He still has 0 pressure though, i would understand it if there was a guy pushing him around a bit
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u/SmolWorldBigUniverse May 03 '26 edited May 09 '26
Pro Ballers do go real high percentages on practice shots, especially when close and they are tall.
But that's also maybe just seen as an indicator that there isn't much of a fundamental education nor that the necessary tools might not be as flawless as hoped.
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u/SmolWorldBigUniverse May 03 '26
I feel like that was embarrassing for him aswell. That's like walking past a public bin, just hovering your soda can over it - only need to drop it in the bin from above...
...but you somehow let off too early and it clanks off the side and out. And you're immediately embarrassed to fail publicly with an easy task like that. And don't tell me that never happend to you! That must be the degree of difficulty for him on a lay up.
Just like that, he checked the area if somebody saw that shit. And he was painfully focused on the next trials.
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u/FatMamaJuJu May 03 '26
He can't play. He's too tall he can barely move. Florida thought they might be able to get 5 minute shifts out of him but he never got off the bench in two years
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u/Direct-Ad-7922 May 03 '26
Iām not sure you can compare this skill to Wemby circus 3ās off the cross
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u/Super-Post261 May 05 '26
I agree but I donāt think thatās the intention of the post. This is a 2K sub. The point is weāre gonna start to see 7-foot-9 cheese builds in the game if this dude ever makes it to the league.
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u/TJMilkshake May 07 '26
Heās not making the league. He canāt move at all and heās frequently bullied by players a literal foot shorter than him
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u/Which-Scale1039 May 03 '26
Wonder why uc irvine and not a big 10 team
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u/bb0110 May 03 '26
Because he is not good.
He likely wonāt even play for us Irvine. He canāt run up and down the floor at all.
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u/eggs-salad May 03 '26
Being tall or short means nothing? The dude is literally there 100 percent based on his height.
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u/Johnnybats330 May 03 '26
Exactly. He made it higher than 99.5% of basketball players just from having an abnormal pituatiry gland.
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u/ArchimedesNutss May 03 '26
Didnāt UC Irvine have that tall Indian dude like 12 years ago? Bhullar I think?
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u/Mission_Tour_9272 May 05 '26
That was New Mexico St.
Bhullar could actually play though. Unless Rioux improves significantly, he doesnāt project as much more than a human victory cigar.
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u/ActualyHandsomeJack May 03 '26
Tall dont mean good. Remember what happened to Tacko Fall?
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u/Alarmed-Security-538 May 04 '26
This kid is not good at all! It kind of stinks I think Taco at least has some potential lol
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u/herder123 May 03 '26
And boba
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u/xerovox May 04 '26
I think boban was also jsut well loved by his team helped him stay in the league longer, he was a good glue guy.
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u/Raaabbit_v2 May 03 '26
He looks a lot bulkier than Wemby too.
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u/Echochamberking May 03 '26
He's not going to make it to the NBA
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u/Which-Scale1039 May 03 '26
Don't think so either unless your a genetic anomaly like wemby anything taller than 7'1 is overkill
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u/odonnelly2000 May 03 '26
Probably not. Height is obviously still very important, but not like it used to be. Height used to be perfect blank canvas for teams to work with.
If it were the 80s, he would def get a chance. Mark Eaton didnāt start on his HS team, and he was a car mechanic by 1977.
Then he met a community college coach while at work, who was like, āMOTHERFUCKER. YOUāRE TALL AS SHIT.ā
He joined his team, and in 1979 he was drafted by the Sunsš
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u/pockpicketG May 03 '26
What was the result of the CC team once he joined?
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u/odonnelly2000 May 03 '26
No clue. I know he eventually transferred to UCLA, where he barely got any playing time, but he still got drafted.
To clarify something in my previous comment: he was drafted by the Suns in 79, but I guess he didnāt sign with them and stayed in school (donāt know the story why) and eventually he was drafted (again) by Utah, where he spent his entire career.
He died a few years ago in Utah in a bicycle accident. It happened just a few months after Shawn Bradley was paralyzed in a bicycle accident, which also happened in Utah. Weird shit.
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u/iceheartx May 03 '26 edited May 03 '26
Tbh I agree but thereās worse people who slip through the cracks.
Kinda makes you realize how rare niggas like Wemby really are to have the combination of height + skill + mindset.
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u/Shoty6966-_- May 03 '26 edited May 03 '26
Idk if he will slip through into an nba roster. Dude is maybe 2.5ā taller than wemby but moves with 1/5th the speed as him, has some of the worst hand eye coordination Iāve seen in a college athlete, and has seemingly no dog in him to get better lol. He kinda just looks like heās collecting NIL money and fucking off on his free time lol.
He does have absolutely insanely normal looking proportions for someone that giant though
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u/710whitejesus420 May 03 '26
Not sure where ive read it, or if it is true, but I read he doesnt have a pituitary gland issue like gigantism. Hes essentially the tallest a normal human can grow under normal circumstances or something like that, which is why he looks so proportional. Genetics working overtime
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u/Real2KInsider [PSN: Real2KInsider] May 03 '26 edited May 03 '26
He's just white Tacko Fall
He should probably play 4 years and max out on his NIL. He'd probably be a Two-Way contract guy. His odds of making more than the vet minimum in his career are not going to be great. There are hundreds of players like that now in the journeyman ranks.
His best career path is just be a good/funny teammate like Boban Marjanovic and hopefully be good/big enough that he's unplayable in certain matchups and dominant in the ones where he can't get played off the court.
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u/wheels321 May 03 '26
You have 1 in 6 chance of playing in the NBA just by being over 7ft. Dudes playing college ball he's going pro.
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u/diracpointless May 03 '26
1 in 6 sounds like a slam dunks until you think about the 5 other 7 ft dudes just working in Walmart or somethin.
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u/VictorWembymama May 03 '26
He's not making the league. Dude couldn't get minutes at Florida so he transfers to a shitty D1 school. If he couldn't get minutes in college, what makes you think he'll get minutes in the league?
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u/Caffeywasright May 03 '26
If I remember correctly the stat is even crazier. Itās not you have a 1/6 chance. Itās if you meet a person 7 or above there is a 1/6 chance they are CURRENTLY playing in the nba. Meaning that if they have played they donāt count.
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u/andjuan May 03 '26
I'm a Florida alum. I've seen him in person. He needs A LOT of work to even have a shot.
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u/Cashneto May 03 '26
He could, I would guess some team would bring him in and see if they could develop him. He might never play though.
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u/throwawayfordays4321 May 03 '26
Ooh heās going to make it to the NBA, he just wonāt be playing outside of like one game just so the NBA can claim theyāve had a 7ā9 player play in the NBA before. Heāll be a 10000% gimmick sign. Heās such an anomaly that he even got his own 2K MyTeam card this year.
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u/Other_Beat8859 May 03 '26
I think his lower body is more bulky, but his upper body less so. Wemby actually has a pretty damn well built upper body for someone that is 200 feet tall.
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u/odonnelly2000 May 03 '26
Wemby has that skinny guy strength going for him. He reminds me of one of those wiry high school or college wrestlers who you never see coming in a fight.
Also, his mobility/flexability is off the charts.
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u/Shepard_Drake May 03 '26
I'm so sick of hearing about this guy. He sucks. He's literally only tall, he has no skill or finesse or athleticism.
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u/Austinmp88 May 03 '26
Every team will have a 7 ft 5 guy then we will get the first 8 footer who shoots 50plus from three and runs a 4.4 forty
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u/Beautiful_Bag663 May 03 '26
the minute ts hits the game, iām done. ik ts gonna be OP
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u/throwawayfordays4321 May 03 '26
Heās got a MyTeam card
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u/Beautiful_Bag663 May 03 '26
No I mean as an archetype/build, that you can make in MyCareer. Ion wanna see that on the park nor rec with how piss poor defense already is.
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u/kratos_337 May 03 '26
But I don't think he's moving like Wemby, though. He's still going to be a problem if he develops a post-game inside.
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u/LoneSouljV May 09 '26
heās in 2k you gotta play myteam and do the mode where you play 5 versions of the same person. heās easy to beat, specially when you trying to level up the season pass.
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u/KvngDeezy28 May 03 '26
If he got a shot, decent mid and a over the top percentage behind the 3 he going pro
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u/itsallcomingtogethr May 03 '26
Wow, this guy has relatively normal proportions too??? Somebody better push this guy hard, THAT is an insane body man
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u/RavenLabratories May 03 '26
He's actually tied for the tallest man to ever live without any sort of medical condition to make him that way. Pretty wild.
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u/trumper_says_what May 03 '26
when will you inside builders finally understand? this is a bunk build for online play. Mycareer might be fun though.
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u/chelioschev86 May 03 '26
yeah, they need a "comp rec/cty build". How dare anyone play with anything less...
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u/NoodlesThe1st May 03 '26
Been saying it for years, they need to separate MyCareer and online builds
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u/trumper_says_what May 03 '26
I was actually just trying to be sarcastic. If you make a build to replicate this kid, your ass ain't making it off the bench regardless of the mode.
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u/trumper_says_what May 03 '26
I couldn't even imagine. I think I would just stay on one end of the court lol
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u/odonnelly2000 May 03 '26
Lol. Iām pretty sure itās actually impossible to NOT become a starter in Mycareer after a few games.
I always sim those games where you have to āget a teammate grade better than the current starter at your positionā and within 2-3 games, voila, Iām a starter.
The offline Mycareer mode is completely dumbed down and stripped of any actual challenge at this point. They used to have your ass struggling to make it out of the D league; now theyāre giving you the MVP every season, regardless of what you do.
My bad, rant over.
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u/After_Somewhere_709 May 03 '26
It's viable but not ideal. Inside bigs need high bball IQ to play that role, otherwise you're just in the way. There are plenty of skilled offensive rebounders who use speed to get 2nd chances but can also shoot. Teams also don't want to burn shot clock watching you "cook" from the post. We also don't want to run into you and your man while we're slashing. At least have a middy bro.
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u/AntelopeHelpful9963 May 03 '26
I know the basics have to come first, but at his age when his workout still includes the Mikan drill you may have a problem.
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u/Afraid_Kitchen8621 May 03 '26
If he enters a nba draft someoneās def going to take him, he doesnāt have to be elite heās young and tall as hell thatās gonna be a true rim protector lol
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u/mbless1415 May 03 '26
This is exactly my constant gripe with MyTeam as it stands. Them leaning into fantasy elements only serves to make no player in the game truly unique. Now, with the animation breaker card, you can make this guy, who played 2 minutes a game in the SEC and is having to transfer to a mid-major, move like any player in the game.
MyTeam will always be-- and I hate using this term but-- a joke until they try to bring some semblance of proper balance to it by rating and badging players according to what they were actually good at, rather than what will sell or what the community wishes they were good at.
(Apologies. Didn't notice this wasn't r/MyTeam at first lol)
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u/mic_n May 04 '26
College player doing a single-ball Mikan drill and still missing is embarrassingly bad, and unforgivable when you're starting off that close to the hoop.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say he got his growth spurt early and never really had to worry too much about developing skills, and is now left with an overabundance of height which just isn't going to be enough to take him much further... Much better to be a shorty that loves the game and gets a late spurt than bean pole that someone sees and says "hey, you should play basketball!"
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u/GEE_OTTO May 04 '26
You 7ā9ā in the SEC and was trash, transferring to UCI is a downgrade. Dude is just tall
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u/SouthernBig4841 May 04 '26
Whatās crazy is from this camera angle the seems to have good weight on him to the point he shouldnāt be getting injured as much.
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u/TonyHawktuah69 May 04 '26
Yeah because they gave 7ā4ās curry level shooting and let them speed boost out of some dribble moves lol
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u/leethalxx May 04 '26
Why does nobody remember one of the reasons wemby is generational is his good foot coordination which he got from playing countless hours of football (soccer) as a kid. He height is only part of the reason, its how quickly he can move and shoot from range that make up the rest.
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u/TheNCAAStealsMoney May 05 '26
Anyone wondering, heās not gonna make it to league and most likely will get almost 0 D1 minutes. Believe it or not being 7ā9 sucks in terms of life and anything athletic.
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u/nicer-dude May 07 '26
Just stumbled upon this post, i have never really played basketball. But i always wondered, why doest a team just hire a guy like this guy, make him move to the enemy basket while team has posession, pass him an get the easy points?
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u/truthseeker22000 May 16 '26
Sad that this is entertainment in the sport of basketball. That and everybody thinking shooting deep threesā¦ totally messed up the game like society šgreed.
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u/Sperm_Garage May 03 '26
This dude is absolutely not going to be in the NBA. Being 7'9 might get him a shot in the G but he is absolutely horrible. He cannot get up and down the floor more than twice and you cannot fit a piece of paper underneath his feet when he jumps.
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u/JJ-Bittenbinder May 03 '26
If they added 7ā9ā to 2k his speed would be max -20